After Tuesday’s satire about ugly people suing for the right to become models, I got some evidence that my satire didn’t go far enough. In New Zealand, an ethnically Indian model has gotten a lot of publicity with her recent charges that she isn’t hired for enough jobs because she’s Indian. Redmond Weissenberger sent me a link to a piece done for the website of the Ludwig von Mises Institute just a few months ago. It’s well-worth a read to see how people are conditioned today to believe that the state’s rhetoric about equality means the realities of the marketplace don’t apply to them.
This is a good opportunity to mention that I’m a big fan of the Mises Institute. The organization is headquartered just a couple of hours down the road from me in Auburn, Ala. (As a University of Alabama alum, I’m not terribly happy with the group’s proximity to my school’s biggest rival, Auburn University, but I try not to hold that against them. Honest.)
Weissenberger is the director of the very new Mises Institute of Canada, which deserves your attention and support, too, especially if you’re in Canada. You can read blog posts from Weissenberger and others, too, for a Canadian perspective on freedom.
OMG! There’s Discrimination in the Modeling Industry!
She had issues that scared me, but I felt loved and understood
Sex is everywhere in our culture, but we’re starved for intimacy
AUDIO: Drama of ‘family of origin’ seems to follow us for a lifetime
In cold and dehumanized culture, many yearn to feel human again
To enjoy ‘Atlas Shrugged Part II,’ you’ll have to grade it on a curve
Life has a brutal habit of forcing us to confront our own hypocrisy
$22,600 for a library router for four users? No wonder states are broke
It took me years to feel the anger I’d repressed since childhood
We fill life with noise because silence forces us to hear truth